Erie Preserving Co. v. Miller
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for breach of a contract; brought to the Superior Court in Windham County, and tried to the jury before Sanford, J. The contract was for the purchase of all the apples from the defendant’s orchard, to he delivered at the Putnam station on the New York New & England Railroad in this state: the plaintiffs to furnish crates and barrels to be there delivered.
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Action for breach of a contract; brought to the Superior Court in Windham County, and tried to the jury before Sanford, J. The contract was for the purchase of all the apples from the defendant’s orchard, to he delivered at the Putnam station on the New York New & England Railroad in this state: the plaintiffs to furnish crates and barrels to be there delivered. On the trial, the plaintiffs, for the purpose of proving that sufficient crates were furnished by them at Putnam to fulfill the conditions of their contract, offered one Dwight Sharpe as a witness, who testified that he was the…
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
The point to which the evidence excepted to in the court below related, was, whether the plaintiffs furnished a sufficient number of crates to satisfy their contract. To prove that they did so, they offered the evidence of one Sharpe, who testified that he was at the time the forwarding freight clerk of the New York & New England Railroad Company at Putnam, whence the crates were sent, and that a large number of empty crates were consigned to and received by the plaintiffs at Putnam during the fall of 1882; and that the witness, for the purpose of refreshing his recollection as to the number…
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